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So are you saying you admit you do not keep them? Or would you like to say you do and are sinless? Be clear.
I sense you're still not understanding what the work is in the passage.
That's what the law being nailed to the cross means.
Yes, it does pop up in the forum now and again. Anyone who thinks God's grace to us in the form of Jesus' crucifixion means they can purposely live in the life Christ's sacrifice set them free from, and they do that, is showing that they don't have God's grace in salvation. They're in unbelief.
Ultimately, they're just showing they don't have the 'saved' part of OSAS for the argument to even matter to them. Born again people don't live like that. They can't. They're born again. That's what John says. A person has to be in unbelief to live like that.
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Good grief, man, surely you know the law is a collection of commands, right?commandment
ἐντολὴ (entolē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1785: An ordinance, injunction, command, law. From entellomai; injunction, i.e. An authoritative prescription.
Law?”
νόμῳ (nomō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively.
No crank here.
The 10 commandments can be kept, it's your imagination that claims they cant
Read the writings of Paul. The covenant was made with Abraham which was four hundred years before the law. The law was our schoolmaster to show none were righteous. The law carried a curse which Christ redeemed us from. The curse is this. If you violated the least command you were guilty of them all. If you bring yourself under the law you have fallen from Grace. Show me one person who can observe the law. There was no one.
Jesus Christ taught and upheld the commandments, and he admonished the church to follow them as seen below
That's an interesting perspective, and how are you these days, Helen? : )
My first thought with the whole 10 Commandments argument is that they seem to be undermining the focus on the two greatest commandments. I mean, take the 4th commandment for instance. If you focus so much on keeping the 4th that you lose sight of the 1st, you could end up being proud of yourself for keeping the 7th day while slowly drifting from letting Him have the other 6. If you focus primarily on keeping "Thou shalt not steal" or "Thou shalt not covet," but neglect to focus on "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," you could end up living a far more deficient form of Christianity than those who focused on the greatest Two.
I don't get the fascination with the 10 Commandments. They were just basic guidelines to a higher spiritual walk. If they had been on a higher level like the focus of New Testament teaching was, He would not have given them to the Jews. They were largely a carnal people, and proved it by what followed in the wilderness.
Anyway, hope you are blessed, and always good to see you around.
Abraham was a Gentile.
Love God & Neighbor is fulfilling the 10 Commandments, at no time have the 10 commandments been revoked or replaced
Well, I keep them. So do many others who truly love the Lord.dad said:
God’s covenant with Abraham was to be a father of many nations not just one. Read Paul and you’ll see this.
You have not understood the commandments he was referring to. Read Paul’s writings concerning the Ten Commandments.
You mean like this verse that proves Paul kept every single one of them?
Or Acts 15:28
